Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

#machinelearning researcher mehmetbasbug.com New Jersey, USA Joined August 2009

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Claire Lehmann @clairlemon

2 months ago

Amazing how many VCs & “technologists” close to the Trump admin go silent on RFK Jr. killing mRNA research. Power & money is more important than technology & idealism, apparently.

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Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

6 months ago

1/14 It is hard to see much systemic thinking in the new round of tariffs, and because trade can only be resolved on a systemic basis, and not on a bilateral basis, this means that they are unlikely to be very helpful. nytimes.com/live/2025/04/0…

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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

7 months ago

Will Trump restore community, rootedness, faith, and family to American society? No. No, he will not. noahpinion.blog/p/this-thing-w…

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Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

10 months ago

3/3 Speaking purely as an economist, I am all in favor of banana art. If artists can figure out ways of getting the wealthy to give them large sums of money by offering them cultural status, it is just a very efficient form of income redistribution.

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Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

a year ago

Rest in peace @danieldennett Great intellect and a brilliant author

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Mert @mertdumenci

a year ago

you: i use Claude 3 Opus for coding me: i use the Amazon Shopping app for coding

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HHMI | Janelia @HHMIJanelia

2 years ago

🦟 By infusing a virtual fruit fly with artificial intelligence, @HHMIJanelia and @GoogleDeepMind scientists have created a computerized insect that can walk and fly just like the real thing. 🤖 🔗janelia.org/news/artificia…

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Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

2 years ago

US is a capitalist and China is a communist country

CN Wire @Sino_Market

2 years ago

US is a capitalist and China is a communist country

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Vipul Ved Prakash @vipulved

2 years ago

When it comes to LLMs, 2023 was the year of Open Source AI. At the end of 2022, the quality delta between best open (Bloom) and closed (GPT-3.5) LLM, as measured by MMLU scores, was 90%. At the end of 2023, this delta between GPT-4 and Mixtral-MoE-7B stands at 13%.

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Demis Hassabis @demishassabis

2 years ago

Published in @Nature: our AI system for material design ‘GNoME’ that found 380,000 new materials (which we’ve made freely available to the research community) with potential to accelerate greener tech from better batteries to more efficient superconductors deepmind.google/discover/blog/…

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Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

2 years ago

.@WalterIsaacson is a fictionagrapher not a journalist Fact-checking some dull bits of Elon Musk’s biography ft.com/content/096d1f… via @FT

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Yann LeCun @ylecun

2 years ago

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers Pretrained and fine-tuned…

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Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

2 years ago

Next frontier of identity politics For the record, I am tolerant of all types of artificial intelligentsia

Nick St. Pierre @nickfloats

2 years ago

Next frontier of identity politics For the record, I am tolerant of all types of artificial intelligentsia

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Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

2 years ago

Brilliant analysis of the inner workings of the chinese economy open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion…

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Mehmet E. Basbug @Mehmet_Basbug

3 years ago

AI is destroying the knowledge barrier and decision making prerogative for many high status jobs. The status quo and regulations will be the major differences between nurses/doctors, paralegals/lawyers, profs/researchers …

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

3 years ago

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Alf @MacroAlf

3 years ago

People took real mortgages to buy houses in the freaking Metaverse, paid $1+ million for the picture of a rock and thousands of unnecessary “tech workers” were paid $200k/year. And now the Fed will get a lot of people unemployed to fix that. This macro cycle is so f*cked up.

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Adam Tooze @adam_tooze

3 years ago

Carbon Note 2 out today, links pieces in @FT and @ForeignPolicy on trans-Atlantic politics of green industrial policy emphasizing how both are overshadowed by China. Try retweeting or liking this h/t @not_alive_irl tinyurl.com/yc4w5a2n

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Arvind Narayanan @random_walker

3 years ago

There are two visions for how people will interact with AI: putting AI into apps, and putting apps into AI. If the latter takes off: –LLMs are a kind of OS (foretold in “Her”). –Biggest user interface change since the GUI? –App makers’ fortunes controlled by a new middleman.

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Sebastien Bubeck @SebastienBubeck

3 years ago

At @MSFTResearch we had early access to the marvelous #GPT4 from @OpenAI for our work on @bing. We took this opportunity to document our experience. We're so excited to share our findings. In short: time to face it, the sparks of #AGI have been ignited. arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

3 years ago

Flashback to 2003: My parents’ friends: You’re majoring in philosophy? Me: Sure, twenty years from now the only white collar work left for humans to do will be to debate functionalism and the “hard problem” of consciousness. It’s either philosophy or plumbing.